Sole for boots and shoes



' L. DAR OZIR & L. DION. Sole for Boots and Shoes.

No. 223,712. 2 Patent ed Jan. 20, 1880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

LEVI DAROZIR ALTD LEON DION, OF NATIOK, MASSACHUSETTS.

SOLE FOR BOOTS AND SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 223,712, dated January 20, 1880..

. Application filed November 3, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, LEVI DAROZIR and LEON DION, of Natick, county of Middlesex, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Soles for Boots and Shoes, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in soles for boots and shoes; and it consists of a sole constructed as hereinafter described, its edge being composed of a narrow strip of soleleather, the thickest edge of which is of the thickness desired for the sole, while the other edge is chamfered or reduced, as shown, to permit skivings shredded, torn, or pulped leather mixed with a proper paste, to be filled inthe space between the thin edges of the said strip bent into sole shape, the said filling material lapping over the skived and beveled narrow edge of the strip.

Figure 1 represents, in top view, a tap or half-sole, in which form my invention is herein shown as embodied; Fig. 2, a cross-section thereof; and Fig. 3, a modification thereof, to be referred to.

- The outer edge of the sole is composed of a strip of leather, a, one edge of which (lettered 2) is of the thickness desired for the sole, While the other edge is thin, as denoted at 3. This strip may be formed by splitting diagonally a piece of leather having each of its edges of substantially the thickness shown at 2. This strip is bent into shape in a sole-shaped mold, after which skivings, shredded leather, or

other equivalent material used for artificial leather is filled into the said mold, as denoted at c. The said material, being mixed with paste usually employed for holding that kind of .material in shape, and subjected to pressure in the said mold, is compacted between and so as to overlap a portion .of the said edge strip, as shown in the drawings, making afirm,cheap, and solid sole, having edges which are as durable as a sole entirely of sole-leather, and which may be treated as sole-leather.

Instead of applying the skivings, 850., denominated by pasted-leather filling, to but one side of the strip, as in Fig. 2, we may apply it to both sides thereof, as in Fig. 3.

In most instances we intend to apply to each face of the sole so formed a piece of split or skived leather, as at (1 e, to add finish'to their appearance.

We claim- As an improved article of manufacture, the molded sole herein described for boots and shoes, composed of the chamfered or beveled strip of sole-leather for its outer edge and the intermediate filling made up of pasted skivings and small pieces of leather, all as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LEVI DAROZIR. LEON DION.

Witnesses:

GEORGE L. SLEEPER, R. O. LARWELL. 

